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Provided by the compucert mazy \MAY-zee\, adjective:
- Resembling a maze in form or complexity; winding; intricate; confusing; perplexing.
- (phrase): for a heterosexual to enter an LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans) event such as a Pride parade or festival. Coined by Natasha Bedingfield in an interview about Milwaukee's Pridefest in Summer of 2008, referring to gate crashing, but the interviewer heard "gate" as "gay," which was equally appropriate.
- There were so many men at the New Kids On the Block concert, I felt like I was gay crashing!
- We're going to gay crash Woody's after dinner and then go to the midnight movie.
Trivia
What baseball player, twice in his career, smacked more home runs single-handedly in a season than any other team in his league?
- Babe Ruth, in 1920 when he hit 54 home runs, and in 1927 when he hit 60.
- Slobodan Milosevic: former Yugoslavian leader was turned over to the UN war crimes tribunal (2001)
- Iraqi Interim Government: took power after US handover (2004)
- Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640): Flemish Baroque painter
- John Wesley (1703 [N.S.]-1791): founder of Methodism
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778): political philosopher and writer
- Richard Rodgers (1902-1979): composer of the Broadway musicals Oklahoma! and The Sound of Music
Mel Brooks (82): the man responsible for Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein and The Producers - Kathy Bates (60): Oscar winner for Misery; other actors born on this date include Bruce Davison (62), Mary Stuart Masterson and John Cusack (both 42) and Gil Bellows (41)
- John Elway (48): the only quarterback to have started in five Super Bowls
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